I was surprised, but I don't think any nation wants that kind of disrespect for their sovereignty. Turkey may have learned from the fooferaw in DC that people actually care about these kind of diplomatic issues, and they still get far more support from the West than they do from the Saudis.

Google News' "Technology" section is now about 45% videogame stuff and 45% cellphone stuff. I would like to revise my opinion. It's about 48% each. My beef with The Algorithm is that I watch a bunch of gardening videos, three lectures on soil biology, a blacksmithing playlist, and *one* GPU teardow...

I'm eye-rolling at lots of things, starting with "crypto-anarchist" would normally be taken to mean "someone who has hidden anarchist beliefs" not "likes digital currency" and its redundant to call him an anarchist and an anti-government extremist in the same breath. I mean that's two fails in the h...

The Terra Ignota books feature a polycentric legal system that ignores geography. You pick a team, and you live by their laws and there are classes of people who deal with the conflict, including a sort of neutral central investigation slash arbitration group. There are also Blacklaws who claim no g...

I guess it can't be TMI if it's requested, so I will tell you that the stickers on apples will pass through just fine, the ink dissolves and the paper looks like paper, not like a shiny label afterwards. I was in a camping trip, so I was having to deal with my own poop (burying it) and I noticed som...

If some anarcho security firm starts a private prison, I'll start an anarcho-private-prison-assault/rescue firm that takes a bond to make sure my clients never face kidnapping and slavery. I think it will be popular.